Steve,

As I read this it sounds like you have 5 rows, not 5 columns.
...because you say "On line 2..." and then you say you only see" "This ID" in column 1...".

This being the case you would need to set the column width [Width property of ListBox] to the width of the widest "message" you would store in column 1.

For what it's worth, this looks like a poor use for the ListBox.

Good Luck,

Jim N

>I have a listbox with 5 columns. They work fine, but sometimes I want to display an error in the listbox that spans all 5 columns. Is there a way to do that?
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>I use AddListItem(somethin,pnCount,1) for column 1 for instance.
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>The 1st column might hold an ID number. On line 2 of the listbox I might show an error message. Such as
>"This ID number is not valid. Please check the ID number and try again." But I only see "This ID" in column 1 because the rest is not in view. If I could span all the columns of the listbox I could see the whole error message.
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>Help please. Thanks.